Pınar Çağlar Gençtürk

Pınar Çağlar Gençtürk — Biography

Pınar Çağlar Gençtürk is an actress and theater director whose path runs from the stage to television and cinema. On screen she is best known for the role of Aylin in the series Yargı and is referred to in the press as “the Aylin of Yargı”; on stage, her performance in the play Yalnızlar Kulübü won her awards in supporting-actress categories at both the Afife Theatre Awards and the Sadri Alışık Awards. She currently plays Meryem in the series Çarpıntı.

She trained at the Theatre Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Yeditepe University and then completed a master’s degree in film and drama at Kadir Has University. Her first television job was Büyük Buluşma in 2004. She acted in the films 7 Kocalı Hürmüz in 2009 and Herkes Mi Aldatır? in 2010, and in 2011 she played Beyhan in Muhteşem Yüzyıl. Çıplak Gerçek (2012) and Çalıkuşu (2013) followed; in 2014 she played Nisa in the horror film Siccin, and in 2016 she appeared in the series Arkadaşlar İyidir and Evlat Kokusu.

More recently she played Emine in Arıza in 2020 and Aylin Erguvan in Yargı in 2021; Yargı was nominated at the International Emmy Awards in 2023. In a 2021 interview about the character she said that many women are in Aylin’s situation. In 2025 she joined the cast of Çarpıntı.